Blogging after a long time, seriously... It feels as if I was missing something.. OK enough for the guilt conscious,... ;-)
Basically wasn't feeling well for past 3 days, missed the last ISB meet... Let's see who all I will see anew at ISB.
Jessica Lal case is re-opened by the DP. No Comments
The lady who was key witness in Best Bakery case was herself accused of false testimony. No comments.
I am unsure if this leads to something, but its all filmi. The media (my favorite people of topic) works both to our advantage and to our agony at the same time. This time, thankfully, we got to know a lot about all such politically motivated cases where people tampered with evidence to stop the justice from happening.
Good that things are coming out... This way at least people with no comments can have some comments. :)
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Education et al
I have been an above average kid from beginning. What it means that while I knew I could study better, I chose not to. I am guilty as charged and therefore, really try to make up by various ways. Its my nature, if I do it, I just become smug that I can do it and then focus myself on something else, than excelling in it. In school I once topped the class and came 3rd in section. Afterwards, I seized to be a studious person, and started quizzing full time. So much so that we won 3rd prize in an inter-school. After that I started to play tennis. Pinnacle came when I was chosen for states, but it was 12th. Even in college, I appeared in top 10 once, and that was that.
What I have observed though from the beginning was that the way we are taught in schools makes us the kind of person we are. It is not an honest attempt to learn, but a futile attempt to pass exams. We just pass exams after exams and come out as totally disoriented people. If you are better, there are 3 avenues you can take, if you are not, you spend your entire life thinking what should be done. Fortunately I was in the first bracket, but many of my friends from school fall under second. Ultimately they come to terms with life, understand what they should do and then accept it as fact.
The bitter things happen to the first bracket. They choose their paths, because others with same credentials have done so, more than their own choice. Believe me, given a choice, I'd have never done engineering! But that was what everyone else was doing at that time. So I did it. The disorientation starts here and it just continues. I pursued my hobbies to some extent, played casio, tennis, and was involved in arts activities too, but the college was a secondary. I was in bottom 20 during the first 3 sems. I knew I'd do it (read the earlier part), but this disorientation was always present.
Then job in Infy was another milestone. I was happy that I'd at last see the real world (I never considered academics real. Somehow they never teach you in context with outside world, but some hypothetical scenarios, or perhaps I never got to understand the practical implications). It was good but I used to think that this was not what my education was meant to be. I survived 4.5 years, and now am about to embark in another journey. MBA at ISB. This is another milestone. Another education I am looking forward to. This time I think I will understand theory applied to real world. In fact now I can make it that way, since I have a 4.5 years of corporate experience.
I am giving a background for my next post. I think it'd be everyone's guess. It won't be negative, but it'd definitely be an eye opener.
What I have observed though from the beginning was that the way we are taught in schools makes us the kind of person we are. It is not an honest attempt to learn, but a futile attempt to pass exams. We just pass exams after exams and come out as totally disoriented people. If you are better, there are 3 avenues you can take, if you are not, you spend your entire life thinking what should be done. Fortunately I was in the first bracket, but many of my friends from school fall under second. Ultimately they come to terms with life, understand what they should do and then accept it as fact.
The bitter things happen to the first bracket. They choose their paths, because others with same credentials have done so, more than their own choice. Believe me, given a choice, I'd have never done engineering! But that was what everyone else was doing at that time. So I did it. The disorientation starts here and it just continues. I pursued my hobbies to some extent, played casio, tennis, and was involved in arts activities too, but the college was a secondary. I was in bottom 20 during the first 3 sems. I knew I'd do it (read the earlier part), but this disorientation was always present.
Then job in Infy was another milestone. I was happy that I'd at last see the real world (I never considered academics real. Somehow they never teach you in context with outside world, but some hypothetical scenarios, or perhaps I never got to understand the practical implications). It was good but I used to think that this was not what my education was meant to be. I survived 4.5 years, and now am about to embark in another journey. MBA at ISB. This is another milestone. Another education I am looking forward to. This time I think I will understand theory applied to real world. In fact now I can make it that way, since I have a 4.5 years of corporate experience.
I am giving a background for my next post. I think it'd be everyone's guess. It won't be negative, but it'd definitely be an eye opener.
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